Anonymous, "Dom-farcai Fidbaidæ Fál" (851; translated as "Writing Out of Doors" and "The Scribe in the Woods")

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Editorial Note

Máire MacNeill prefaces her translation of this medieval Irish poem as follows:

"This ninth-century lyric was found in the margin of Priscian's treatise on Latin grammer in the monastery of St. Gall, near Lake Constance, Switzerland, a monastery famous for its library of Irish manuscripts. The Irish St. Gall (d. 645) is the Swiss patron saint." (21)

Comments:

St. Gall is the patron saint of the city of St. Gall, but not of Switzerland.
The Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, where the poem was written, is one of the partner institutions of the SCIS-ZJJF.
The poem appears in Cod. Sang. 904 – Prisciani grammatica: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/0904/203/0/Sequence-706(bottom of the page).
The poem is referenced in "Early Irish Lyric" by Micheal O'Siadhail.

Irish Version

Translation by James Carney

Translation by Máire MacNeill

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Original

- Anonymous, "Dom-farcai Fidbaidæ Fál." 851. Medieval Irish Lyrics. Ed. and trans. James Carney. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. 22.

Translations

- Anonymous, "Writing Out of Doors." Medieval Irish Lyrics. Ed. and trans. James Carney. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. 23.

- Anonymous, "The Scribe in the Woods." Medieval Irish Lyrics. Trans. Máire MacNeill. An Irish Literature Reader: Poetry, Prose, Drama. 1987. Eds. Maureen O'Rourke Murphy and James MacKillop. 2nd ed. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006. 21.

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Anonymous, "Dom-farcai Fidbaidæ Fál" (851; translated as "Writing Out of Doors" and "The Scribe in the Woods")

Editorial Note

Irish Version

Translation by James Carney

Translation by Máire MacNeill

Weiterführende Informationen

Switzerland in Irish Poetry

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The Swiss Center of Irish Studies

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